This paper aims to examine concepts of Virtual, Digital and Electronic Libraries, submitted by specialists in the Science of Organizing and Managing Libraries (Biblioteconomia) and in Information Technology. The theoretical basis focuses on the increasing importance of digitalization of National Libraries collections, also narrating, in a brief manner, the historyof the Brazilian National Library, so-called Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation), and describing its collections and main projects. It also intends to describe the process of creating and implementing the Brazilian National Digital Library and analyses the role of the librarian amidst the change from an analogical culture into a digital culture. Images of the equipment existing in the digitalization lab of the National Library Foundation are shown, including some works belonging to the institution’s collection and images, site and projects.

This paper aims to examine concepts of Virtual, Digital and Electronic Libraries, submitted by specialists in the Science of Organizing and Managing Libraries (Biblioteconomia) and in Information Technology. The theoretical basis focuses on the increasing importance of digitalization of National Libraries collections, also narrating, in a brief manner, the historyof the Brazilian National Library, so-called Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation), and describing its collections and main projects. It also intends to describe the process of creating and implementing the Brazilian National Digital Library and analyses the role of the librarian amidst the change from an analogical culture into a digital culture. Images of the equipment existing in the digitalization lab of the National Library Foundation are shown, including some works belonging to the institution’s collection and images, site and projects.